Title :
Open Source and Professional Advancement
Author :
Spinellis, Diomidis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Technol., Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus.
Abstract :
Open source software development efforts offer us professionals a new and valuable way to obtain significant experience in a wide range of areas and to advance professionally. The most obvious way for a professional to benefit from open source software is by fixing and improving existing open source code. Many open source projects have lists chock-full of exciting additions and obscure bugs eagerly waiting for us developers to get our hands on them. By joining an existing open source software project, we can immediately practice the art of maintaining other people´s code and sharpen our corresponding skills
Keywords :
professional aspects; project management; public domain software; open source software development; professional advancement; Collaborative tools; Communication system control; Data security; Distributed databases; Open source software; Programming profession; Project management; Relational databases; Spatial databases; Testing; open source; profession; software development; software engineering; system administration;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MS.2006.136
